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Women in cybersecurity: the change is coming, slowly but steadily - "TechnoTron"

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Many industries are working hard to equalize the gender disparity within their fields, and have good reasons for wanting to do so. Not only companies with a more diverse workforce offers a playing field more obvious to the new recruits; there were studies that found that the places of work various are more profitable, productive and have higher levels of customer satisfaction. These findings make the picture even more worrying for the industry of information security, in that only 11% of jobs in cybersecurity at the global level are occupied by women. In an industry that is also facing a recruitment crisis (40,000 of the 128.000 positions that open annually in the united States remain vacant), it is evident that much remains to be done to address the gender gap in the cybersecurity and increase the levels of recruitment of the industry in general. CYBERSECURITY, WOMEN, WORKS A problem of image Despite being, by definition, a modern industry and a vision for the...

I turn on the light, and give me your passwords! False lantern hides on Google Play - "TechnoTron"

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A banking malware with the capabilities of screen lock was pointing to Android users, by pretending to be a application with function of flashlight available on Google Play . Unlike other banking trojans, which are a set of banking applications such as aim, this is able to adjust its functionality in a dynamic way. In addition to providing the promised functionality of the flashlight , the threat, controlled in a remote way, comes with a variety of additional functions that are looking to steal banking credentials from victims. On the basis of the commands on your server of C&C, the trojan can display screens fake that mimic legitimate applications, block infected devices to hide the fraudulent activity, intercept SMS messages, and display notifications to false to avoid the double authentication. The malware can affect all the versions of Android . Due to its dynamic nature, it may not be a limit to the apps lens; the threat gets HTML code based on the applications ins...

Instagram: services to squeeze - "TechnoTron"

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"Statistics, scheduled posts, profiles influential..." According to data of January 2017 Statista , Instagram is the seventh social network in number of users. With more than 600 million instagramers , we will only make shadow Facebook (USA) and Qzone (China) and apps like WhatsApp, Messenger or the chinese QQ and WeChat. Its importance is such that, in addition to the apps official, there is a whole ecosystem of applications designed to improve your photographs of face-to publish them on Instagram . On the website you will also find services online to Instagram , pages that provide features absent in Instagram to improve your mind, better manage your images and posts, or even to gain followers. Let's look at some of the services that are most recommended. INSTAGRAM, SOCIAL NETWORKS, APP, SMARTPHONES, INTERNET, TRENDS Crowdfire We started with Crowdfire , a tool with which to analyze your account of Instagram , propose some goals and achie...

Chrome: will warn you if you start to write on pages without encryption - "TechnoTron"

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" The new notice of Chrome on pages without encryption will prevent your data from being spied on. " The latest versions of Chrome have been focused on the fight against the HTTP and the empowerment of HTTPS; if you don't know the difference, basically, HTTPS provides an encrypted connection and reliable. If a page uses HTTPS, we have some assurance that the communication can not be espiada easily by a third party; and also that we are connecting with the correct page and not a fake (the famous phishing). However, HTTPS is not as expanded as you would like to Google . On some pages, directly it is because it is unnecessary because it does not transmit private information or require you to enter data; in others, it is because simply the administrator of the website has not done its job. CHROME, BROWSERS, INTERNET, SAFE PAGES New warning to Chrome in pages without encryption when writing That's why, since a few versions, Chrome is alerting to ...

Chrome: marked as “not safe” most visited pages - "TechnoTron"

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"With version 56 will reach the notice of non-secure page in Chrome, but does it really was necessary on the part of Google?" Google has a crusade against the webs unsafe; and is doing everything possible to eliminate them from the face of the Internet. It is not only that in the Google search pages safe have preference, is that the Chrome browser soon you will be informed when to enter into a non-secure page. GOOGLE, BROWSERS, INTERNET, CHROME HTTPS, the future of the web When we talk about “safe” or “not safe”, basically we talk about if the website uses HTTPS or HTTP; they are two versions of the same protocol, the first encryption of the content. Here you can read more about the difference between HTTP and HTTPS. HTTPS is a must for pages with login or that show personal data; not only encrypts data, but also verifies that the identity of the website is correct by using certificates. Unfortunately, HTTPS is not as widely adopted as we would like; ...

How to retrieve and format a SD card or microSD corrupted - "TechnoTron"

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The price at which we can find memories SD and microSD cards for our smartphones, camera, or projects with a Raspberri Pi, it is not surprising that we have numerous at home. However it is products are not exempt from faults, and more regularly than we would like, if we are not careful, it is likely that at some point we find that it is not possible to read or access data from a microSD card or corrupted SD . In that case it is worth knowing that often we will be able to recover a microSD card to continue using it, and even saving the data it contained. In this guide we will explain to you how to do it. MICRO SD, SD, RECOVERY DATES, FORMAT My SD card or microSD does not work, what do I do? An SD memory card or microSD us of failure depends on many circumstances. It can be the sum of intensive use (all have a life cycle of maximum after which failures are "admissible") and not very good quality of the memory chips inside, due to improper use, extreme temperat...

Smart TV: turn your tv, buying guide of set-top boxes - "TechnoTron"

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How is your Smart TV dreamed of? For years the various manufacturers of televisions have been looking for to provide extra functions and applications to their best models. By the way, there have been attempts individual, partnerships with giants such as Google and in the last year, a true battle of operating systems advanced.  Despite these attempts, it is more usual to make it more advanced to a tv and have, for example, full playback of local content or streaming services using the applications, you still connect an external device and to multiply the options of the tv regardless of the model or brand of tv that we have. SMART TV, TECHNOLOGY, TV, TRENDS Today the options on the market are very numerous, powerful, and different enough for there to be enough doubt at the time of choosing the model that best fit what we seek. We must analyze the main products and set-top boxes on the market and offer our buying guide of set-top boxes to get a Smart TV to our liking...

KING OF APP: Learn how to create a app for Android or iPhone in minutes - "TechnoTron"

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The process is practically automatic APP, SMARTPHONES, ANDROID, IPHONE, KING OF APP We have seen on many occasions how the technology provides us with the day-to-day in many areas. Both the hardware and software evolve for tasks that years ago were complex they are within the reach of anyone. An example, of which I have spoken previously, it is the task of creating an app for the Android , iPhone or another platform. To start, create prototypes, interactive and functional, it is possible to directly from the browser. The same thing happens with the design, creation and publication of a mobile application in full by templates and modules scheduled to run from minute one. We have seen examples such as Windows App Studio, Microsoft, or AppsBuilder. Today we're going to talk about King of App , another example that does that program already is not a prerequisite to have your own mobile application. In a few minutes and following the on-screen instructions, you'll b...

Reading: How to choose the best books in Vacation - "TechnoTron"

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The free days are ideal to devote to the reading or to take it up again, but, as everything, requires some estimates. Reading is an activity that can give us great satisfaction and that literally immerses us in other worlds and states very interesting for our development. It is worth saying that choosing books for vacation or days off can be as simple as taking the reading we are doing in this moment. However, it can be worthwhile some of the tips that the more readers we have. I would not choose difficult books or thick. We all have the same time, to read the trick is to invest in that and not on anything else, therefore, by default, involves saying no to many other occupations possible. On vacation , the book is competing, even more so, with other stimuli that can be more interesting, so if we take the task of reading a book that is hard, in a period of supposed rest, it will make us more uphill to the top of what is already normal. BOOKS, E-BOOKS, READING, VACATI...

TVISO a search engine that finds movies and tv shows in more than 20 online sites - "TechnoTron"

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TVISO a search engine that finds movies and tv shows There are two classes of consumers of television. Those who use their air and those who can adapt to it. The seconds are well-known: they turn on the tv and put the first channel where they find something interesting. And when are you going to give something that they like, they have to turn on the television to a time and specific days.  But it is increasingly common for the first profile, the those who put on the tv when we want to see something concrete, without waiting to be emitting at that time in one of the many current channels.  This profile of audiences to choose when and what you want to see, because in the present, if you've lost something, the little time you have available in one of the many streaming services, free or paid. In the final analysis. The tv no longer is this device that we turn on and shows us linear content. Now we decide what we want to see and in what orde. TVISO, TV GUIDE, S...

Yandex: the translator that gives a voice to minorities - "TechnoTron"

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Yandex: the translator that gives a voice to minorities TRANSLATOR, INTERNET, YANDEX While the Google Translator offers the possibility to translate more than a hundred languages, its competitor, Russian Yandex by now it has only 94. But unlike the us giant, the company's Russian computer gives the possibility of translating minority languages, and even includes the language elvish, sindar. The service Yandex Translator has created a unique collection of languages that have an important cultural significance. Yandex launched its translator in 2011, back then the program only 'spoke' in three languages: Russian, Ukrainian and English. Currently, Yandex Translator has become a polyglot. Since its 'birth' Yandex has learned many languages, including papiamento, a language spoken by about 300,000 people on the islands of CuraƧao, Bonaire and Aruba, located near the coast of Venezuela. The machine learn a language in two stages. First...